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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

The Little Austrian Corporal and his Nazi thugs said the same shit about the war against the Bolsheviks. When they smashed through the German border, it was a FAFO moment. MAGA are basically sacks of shit.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago

The US is not winning the war in Iran.

[–] eierkuchen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

Dictator says what now....?

[–] sheetzoos@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's treason to be Putin's bitch.

Shame no one has the power, or the balls to hold the traitor accountable.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The power is there, the balls to use it are not

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Remember kids, just because a fascist says it is true, doesn't mean it is actually true.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Republicans continuing their quest to dilute the impact and meaning of the word treason.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 10 points 4 hours ago

Much like Israel diluting the meaning of antisemitic. Fascist dictatorships tend to do that.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

The misses farted on my balls and I shouted, "Treason!"

She looked me dead in the eye and said, "Just like Trump, you have no idea what treason means."

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Not only "not winning", actually losing. In fact Iran not losing, means they are the ones winning.

[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 8 points 5 hours ago

You can't prove they are not winning as long as they refuse to define any goals. 🤷

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The US is not winning

The reat of the sentence is left as an exercise for the reader.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

The US is not winning

[–] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Trump keeps pointing to “their navy is gone their air force is gone” as proof the US is winning.

Years ago Iran evaluated what kind of a war they might face, and determined that their best shot was through massive amounts of ballistic missiles, drones, and small watercraft. This meant significantly de-prioritizing a traditional air force and navy. So yeah, they don’t have really any capital ships or fighter jets, but they never had much of those in the first place and haven’t been prioritizing that part of their military. But their missile and drone stocks - to say nothing of actual soldiers in their army btw - are all still doing pretty great actually. Destroyers and interceptor jets aren’t going to win the war for Iran and that was never their plan anyway.

The US is absolutely NOT winning this war, and they will not be able win this war.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Trump keeps pointing to “their navy is gone their air force is gone” as proof the US is winning.

There navy is gone, except for the armada of speed boats running mid-range recon and planting sea mines and launching drones.

Their air force is gone except for all the planes we haven't shot down yet and their UAWs and etc etc.

Their leadership is all assassinated, except for the people currently in command.

We're winning! We're winning! We're just a little behind as time is running out.

The US is absolutely NOT winning this war

We've spent a quarter trillion dollars to destroy over a trillion dollars in Iranian infrastructure and massacre an innumerable count of their civilian population. If this is a war of genocide, we're winning. At least in so far as they're dying in far higher volumes than us.

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I would think would be wrong to go against the constitution and first amendment… no freedom of speech anymore?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

These people stand on absolutely nothing.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

The US isn't winning the war in Iran.

Come at me, bro!

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Why are Americans so weak and ineffective? why are they ok being led by a demented, racist, old pervert?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think America is too big and too stratified, it is no longer possible for young and interested people to guide the nation. Only aging people with great wealth can ever have a shot at control, and their beliefs are extremely dated by default. Also, our founding document is about 250 years of age, and wasn't built for a coast-to-coast nation of high technology. There weren't many democracies nor republics to model our society after, so we didn't have much foreknowledge of the pitfalls that could happen.

Sheer inertia of belief, wealth, and flawed design, underpin America's problems. Franklin Roosevelt delayed the destruction of the America we knew, and our modern political critters have squandered the opportunity to save the ship.

This America, is almost certain to die. The great question, is what things will replace it?

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Probably smaller countries. Midwest is a country, southeast is a country, etc etc.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I think there is a real, deep seated conditioned response in a lot of Americans to just assume things will work out and it will be OK in the long run. Basically a form of privilege to not worry about the problems of the world because somebody else will definitely fix it.

I'm a white male american born into conservative culture who grew up in the 80s and 90s , and I definitely had that feeling instilled in my head along the way. For gen x and boomers who spent more of their early years in more of the post-ww2 US dominance, it's probably worse.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

I have an lbgt family member that voted for him. There really is societal conditioning at play.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Also probably help that actually removing him is extremely hard at best. The political method is basically dead on arrival since the courts are captured, the Republicans are in favor of him, and the Democrats don't have enough will to actually do anything outside of maybe a hundred people across Congress. Seriously there should be Congress criters killing each other with canes at this point but no that's uncivil, hell at minimum Dems should be spitting in the face of pissbags like Johnson and McConnell.

As for the violent methods, basically all of them are scatter shot at best. You could summon up a militia and march right up to the Whitehouse to lynch him and the end result would probably be somewhere between the Bonus Army and the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Oh fuck off, you sundowning piece of shit.

I've recently read that Iran has around 25 million potential "warfighters" between standing army & militia, if there was ever a land invasion. You can't gaslight your way out of this, traitor.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It's treasonous to say that all of my sharts are not liquid gold!!!

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago

The most divisive man in history. Trying to win fake supporters by bullying them.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

Is that so? Well in that case the US is not winning the war with Iran

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Coming from a genocidal rapist pedophile piece of shit that would be a compliment

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